I'll make it short, since everyone probably already knows what this is: an immersive sim that looks like XIII. Got it.
It's a very well made game so far, and with Episode 2 coming for free, I couldn't be happier to support this studio. However, it has a very distinct identity, which seems stylish 90% of the time, but can be a bit confusing at other times. Anecdotally speaking (things I would like to see improved):
- they stick to the comic book look that makes everything look like a cardboard cutout at all costs, which is super authentic, but you can't see things or enemies from above. Which is kind of questionable in a game as vertical as this one. A lot of the time you will be looking at enemies from a distance to sound out the environs, or from above, but you can't really make them out. Mid-tier annoying. Also, maybe slightly thicker edges around the characters would help in terms of visual readability. In comparison, Paper Mario doesn't have mechanics adjacent to needing to see characters from all angles, so it can omit this point for style, but Fallen Aces DOES utilize and require you to use those mechanics, so this is NOT GOOD.
- related to the above point, a zoom function (other than when reading comics) or binoculars as a cheap item to get at the hideout would probably help A LOT.
- also, expected and would have liked to see some hidden pathways, vents, destructible secret walls etc. in the hideout.
- going stealth is sometimes more awkward than it should be, because enemies will see you in places and at distances you would think were safe. So far, I didn't get a good grasp on this point in particular and always end up slaughtering everybody, which I dislike a lot, since I have no similar problems in other stealth games (not in Hitman, neither in Deus Ex, even Styx did this one better).
- a strong selling point of theirs is that any object can be used as a weapon somehow or other (even rats and pigeons), which is super cool, but it is unfathomably hard to guess how sturdy they are or how much damage they do. I think they already improved on this (could be the Mandela effect though), but I think it's still not enough. When I throw a whole man, as in, a corpse, at another man, I would to see that guy tumble over and take some visible damage, get stunned, or whatever else you would expect. Same for huge vases or espresso machines and so on.
- noise detection of enemies seems to be inexistant. The only way they can detect you is via visibility, which isn't implemented as well as it could be (as stated above). I understand that this part is probably a lot of work to get right, so I can deal with it. Still worth mentioning.
That should be all I wanted to mention to the devs, since this is a great game that still has even more potential to realize yet. May the gooners always smile upon you, or something like that.
